That sounds quite ominous, doesn’t it? Lengths of concrete reinforcement steel—”reo” in tradey speak—sneaking out and wrapping itself around the feet of unsuspecting pedestrians, gorging itself on the sustenance needed to multiply and cover the city in more and more highways… Alright, too much sci-fi in my house perhaps.

With Japan being such a densely [...]

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TMR’s readers from Melbourne, Australia, might enjoy this one.  Eastlink is a freeway/tollway project that has been underway for some years now, and despite various protesting and federal government backpedaling, the project is finally drawing to a close.

Linking the city of Melbourne to the coastal city of Frankston—via the Eastern Freeway and then further on [...]

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Another 2008 Detroit Auto Show debutant is Volkswagen’s Passat CC. Designed in the four-door coupe mould made popular by the Mercedes CLS the Passat CC is longer, wider and lower than the humble Passat sedan on which it is based.

The Passat CC will be available with a choice of petrol and diesel engines, depending on [...]

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You may think we have gone slightly batty with regards to the 2008 Nissan GT-R’s imminent release, and I for one can confirm this is true. News overnight has seen a basic presale pamphlet for the new GT-R being posted on the web.

This pamphlet is to be made available to the Japanese public this Thursday, [...]

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